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There's a riot going on. Three rooms full. Free admission. Open five days a week (closed Sundays and Mondays). Come on down...
...THIS IS A riot gun," says 29-year police veteran Robert "I'm the NRA" Kliesmet--a man with the law and order look written all over him. He brandishes his gun as he leans against his police car--a man who obviously revels in his machismo...
...Commissioner Sir Kenneth Newman responded by seeking an additional 3,000 officers. A row on the subject has even erupted in the House of Commons, where Tory Backbencher Winston Churchill wants to ban violence and sex on television. Says Dr. Gillian Mezey, who has studied rape in London's riot-torn Brixton neighborhood: "In places like Brixton, where there are no jobs and terrible housing, women are just easy targets of aggression...
Last week's police riot quickly spread to five other hotels near the pyramids and many nightclubs and casinos on the broad avenue leading to the ancient monuments. At least two police stations were burned down. Renegade policemen also set free more than 300 of the 5,000 inmates at the Tura Prison south of Cairo. Among those liberated were scores of Islamic fundamentalists and other political prisoners who have opposed the Mubarak government. Other rebellious police, joined by gangs of civilian rioters, marched through the streets of suburban Maadi, where many diplomats and other foreign nationals live, burning cars...
Three CBS television staffers were ordered out of the country. The government accused them of filming a mass funeral of Black riot victims in "flagrant contempt" of a court prohibition...